The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Shifting Trends of COVID-19 Tweet Sentiment with Respect to Voting Preferences in the 2020 Election Year of the United States
Megan Doman, Jacob Motley, Hong Qin, Mengjun Xie, Li Yang

Extracting and Visualizing Narratives from Social Video Sharing Platforms
Nitin Agarwal, Hayder Alrubaye, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Thomas Marcoux, Sruthi Kompalli, Gaurav Raj Thapa, Mayor Inna Gurung

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Integrating New Technologies in Human-Driven Professions: How Can Tourist Guides Leverage Digital Transformation?
Christian Bourret, Claudia Da Re, Denis Juillière, Karim Fraoua

An Investigation of Twitter Users Who Gave Likes to Tweets Disclosing Submitters' Personal Information
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Toshiki Nakano, Hiromu Nishimura, Yoshihiro Okada